Poll: Hillary Popularity Falls to Lowest Level Since ’08 Dem Primaries
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s popularity has dipped since she left President Barack Obama’s administration. According to the latest Fox News poll, conducted by the Democratic polling outlet Anderson Robbins Research and the Republican firm Shaw & Company, Clinton’s favorability rating has fallen to its lowest point since April, 2008.
Respondents in that poll view Clinton favorably by just 49 to 45 percent, a level of popularity unseen since the height of Clinton’s heated battle with Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Just under two years ago, in August of 2012, that poll found Clinton’s favorability reaching an all-time high of 63 percent with just 31 percent viewing the Obama’s chief diplomat unfavorably.
The latest Fox poll contained a variety of other surprises, The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake noted. Chief among them was the Republican Party’s favorability rebound. That poll shows the GOP is viewed favorably by 45 percent of the public and unfavorably by another 45 percent. In October of last year, 63 percent of respondents viewed the party unfavorably while just 30 percent disagreed.
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It’s the highest their favorability has been since late October, 2010, just before the GOP managed to retake control of the House of Representatives.
Blake observes that the rebound in GOP popularity is due in part to the number of Republicans who have said that they are again happy with the course their party is on. In October, 2013, only 62 percent of Republicans approved of the GOP. Today, 84 percent do.
The results are comparable to the Democratic Party’s favorability, which is viewed favorably by 46 percent of the public and unfavorably by 44 percent. The party’s unfavorability rating in that poll is the lowest it has been since September, 2012, when it reached just 41 percent. That result did not, however, hinder the party’s ability to win seats in both chambers of Congress and send Obama back to the White House less than two months later.
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